Jeffery Rieber was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of Glenda Craig
According to court documents Jeffery Rieber would rob a store and in the process shoot and kill the clerk Glenda Craig
Rieber would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Jeffery Rieber Case
At approximately 5:00 p.m. on October 9, 1990, Allen Wayne Gentle stopped at the Mobil Mart convenience store in Huntsville, Alabama. While inside the store, Gentle saw and spoke to the appellant. Gentle and the appellant had attended the same high school several years earlier. When Gentle went to the counter, Glenda Craig, the cashier, asked him several questions. Gentle responded, “Rieber” and “I don’t think he would do nothing like that.” (R. 488-89.)
About three hours later, Glenda Craig was found lying on the floor of the Mobil Mart behind the cash register. She had been shot twice. Although Craig was alive when she was found, she died of the gunshot wounds shortly thereafter.
Later that night, the videotape from a surveillance camera at the Mobil Mart was taken into custody by the police. The tape showed a man entering the Mobil Mart at 7:55 p.m. and approaching the counter where Craig was standing. The man shot Craig and she fell to the floor. The man then took money from the cash register and reached over the counter and shot Craig again. The police showed Gentle the tape that night. The tape confirmed that the appellant and Gentle had been in the store around 5:00 that evening and Gentle identified the appellant Jeffery Rieber as the man who entered the store at 7:55 and shot Craig.
Tommy Erskine testified that several days before this offense occurred, he went to the Mobil Mart. Erskine noticed the appellant Jeffery Rieber sitting in a car outside the store. He said that when he went inside, Glenda Craig spoke to him and that she appeared very nervous and afraid. Erskine suggested she call the police and he left when the appellant entered the store. Erskine testified that after he got home, he decided to return to the store because he felt uneasy about what had happened. When he got to the store and did not see the appellant’s car, he started to leave. He said that as he was driving away, he saw the appellant’s car drive by the store. Erskine testified that he went in the store and told Craig to call the police because the appellant was patrolling the store.
https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-criminal/1994/cr-91-1500-0.html
